New Delhi, April 24 -- Congress MP Manish Tewari on Friday said that the high voter turnout in the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections and the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls is a "statistical illusion" resulting from the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Speaking with ANI, Manish Tewari said, "The turnout is a statistical illusion as a consequence of the malicious effect of an absolutely misguided SIR, where votes have been deleted arbitrarily without any cause, and lakhs and lakhs of appeals challenging the deletions were not decided, effectively disenfranchising people," he said.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said that the high voting percentage in West Bengal reflects public ange...